In the Press
Selected press coverage, interviews, and media appearances featuring my work as a writer, consultant, and advocate.
Live Like the World is Dying podcast
An interview with Zena about collective parenting, challenging nuclear family norms, queer lineages of care, and creating supportive community structures for raising children.
Living in this Queer Body podcast
Zena in conversation with Hannah McGregor about caring ferociously, macho homemaking, living life as a committed spinster, work as a trauma response, and domestic embodiment.
From What If to What Next podcast
An interview with Zena about centering disability justice, deep inclusion and liberation in healthcare, education, and the arts.
Grounded Futures podcast
Zena in conversation with Uilliam Joy and carla joy bergman about about imagining care beyond institutions, intergenerational solidarity, queering kinship, and consensual care.
University of Minnesota Press podcast
Zena in conversation with Hil Malatino about trans experience, affect and rage, mapping the emotional terrain of survival, liberatory health care, and envisioning liberated futures together.
San Francisco Public Library author talk
Zena in conversation with Shayda Kafai about disability justice, BIPOC activism, crip kinship, transforming health systems, and the radical imaginings of disabled queer and trans bodyminds of color.
Xtra Magazine
Zena in conversation with Ziya Jones about questioning health care systems, imagining pleasure-centered care, centering LGBTQ2S+ expertise, and transforming medicine from sites of harm into spaces of healing and liberation.